Architects of Victory
Shattan, Joseph
and about the men he designates as architects, and worked with many of the participants. And what he's produced is terrific journalism, a highly readable book that should be as accessible to a mass...
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...And Churchill did all this decades before his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946...
...Fortunately, he turned out to be because I thought it very much needed one of history's great bumblers, and thus writing," he says, "and because I felt I could helped bring about what he desperately do it right...
...He called them "fungus," a "cancer," "a barbarism...devoured by vermin, racked by pestilence," and "subhuman...
...And Gorbachev's goal was Oberdorfer's The Turn comes to mind...
...The most troublesome in this regard was Franklin Roo-sevelt, who felt Stalin would melt once subjected to FDR's charm and persuasiveness...
...Truman, Solzhenitsyn, the Pope, and Reagan are obvious choices, and I don't k PerformanceuibA Textbook with them...
...Bided States and its allies, and neither of n't pass muster in the liberal world of main-Bradley's heroes stood tall in that struggle...
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...Churchill knew this was a crock, but there was only so much he could do about it...
...But Churchill and Ade000rmance nauer aren't, which makes Shattan's treatment of them so compelling...
...Even back then, Churchill was a voice happened or who caused it...
...A recurring theme of Shattan's is the trouble anti-Communists encountered with their own leaders...
...Not the talk of disease, but the insight into Soviet tactics...
...They'd rather pre- rest of the British Cabinet preoccupied with Fred Barnes tend the accommodationist policies of other pressing postwar issues, Churchill (as Carter and others—not the rejection of minister of war) single-mindedly sought to he most appalling thing about the those policies—and Gorbachev's reforms overthrow the Bolshevik regime by lendpolitical heroes that Bill Bradley brought the Cold War to a peaceful end...
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...So who, besides Ronald Reagan, are Shattan's heroes...
...With the REVIEWED BY don't want to know...
...Reagan did, however, and insisted on pursuing policies that would put Soviet Communism over the edge as soon as possible...
...Virtually no one, even among his own advisers, believed that Communism was teetering on the brink of total breakdown in the 1980's...
...But not to transform the Soviet Union into a there haven't been many, and certainly not democracy, but to prevent exactly that from one quite like Shattan's...
...Shattan has not done original I belabor the point about Bradley only research...
...People in stmt...
...This meant West Germany couldn't be neutral in the Cold War, or else it might wind up dominated by or aligned with the Soviet Union...
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...During Carter's four years in the White True, there have been other books that House, Communism not only gained enor- gave some credit to anti-Communists for mous ground but also picked up political the demise of Soviet Communism...
...He, too, was mistaken, but he didn't have a clue about this until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979...
...The great story of the sec- the truth is his thesis (hard-line anti-Cornond half of the twentieth century was the munism prevailed) and his heroes (Ronald defeat of Soviet Communism by the Unit- Reagan, Alexander Solzhenitsyn etc...
...Thirty-five years later, Carter thought he'd be able to mesmerize Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev when they met one-on-one at a summit in 1978...
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...But that came only after Churchill had "unloosed a barrage of invective" against the Communists that Shattan says was "unparalleled in modern British political history...
...It's going tried to drive out the new Bolshevik govThe Heritage Foundation on a decade now since Communism col- ernment in Russia in 1919, but it wasn't to 343 pages / $24.95...
...Churchill, in fact, laid the rhetorical groundwork for Reagan by recognizing that the Soviets were not simply garden-variety autocrats who must be contained but a threat to civilization that needed to be extinguished...
...He was a deeply devout Catholic whose overriding goal was for postwar Germany to become "an integral part" of Christian Europe and not slip into the Soviet orbit...
...If Germany pursued a `policy of strength, however, and remained firmly allied with the West, the Soviet Union sooner or later would be forced to agree to unification on West German terms," Shattan writes of Adenauer's calculation...
...Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Pope John Paul II...
...Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev, Shattan got lots of excuses, such as his were players in the Cold War, and this was book was about too many people (six...
...everything written about the Cold War The American Spectator • December /999/January 2000 91 cession of White Russian generals...
...Sound like anyone...
...They aren't...
...Two of his heroes, published by the Heritage Foundation...
...This was "an extraordinary triumph, for it meant that a balance of military power had finally been established in Europe, thereby making Russian attack extremely unlikely and freeing Western Europe from the threat of Soviet hegemony" Not surprisingly, it was a devoted "Adenauerian," Helmut Kohl, who actually brought about German reunification in 1990...
...Maybe it's common knowledge that he Joseph Shattan that world are in a state of denial...
...Yet Bradley praises Gor- Architects of Victory is not a scholarly bachev for courage and Carter for honesty...
...Adenauer, chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963, had no illusions about Communists or Communism...
...But he's read Weekly Standard...
...14.95 paper lapsed, and they still don't know why it me...
...They worked, though America's intelligentsia is loath to admit it...
...To further this, he guided West Germany into NATO in 1955...
...Like Churchill, Reagan was a dissenting voice on dealing with the Soviets...
...mainstream journalism, much of the polit- Churchill is one leader who had the Architects of Victory: ical community, nearly all of academia, Soviets—and Lenin—pegged from the Six Heroes of the Cold War and most of book publishing...
...I don't mean to dismiss the chapters on Truman, Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, and Reagan as inconsequential...
...And what he's produced is terrific journalism, a highly readable book that should be as accessible to a mass audience ten or twenty years from now as it is today...
...His line of work is speechwriting, because his musing about heroes is so rep- and he's one of the best in the business, resentative of the thinking that dominates having written for Vice President Dan Quayle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, William Ben-FRED BARNES is executive editor of the nett, and Elliott Abrams...
...He might have succeeded, except Prime Minister David Lloyd George found his crusade obsessive and stepped in to snuff it out...
...Don momentum...
...And they in the wilderness, Shattan notes...
...ing support and encouragement to a succited in the Democratic presidential Which is why Joseph Shattan's won-debate in New Hampshire last October derful rendering of the real masterminds was that he was serious about them...
...But significant, too...
...In 1920, he told the British Cabinet that the Soviets had "committed and are committing unspeakable atrocities, and are maintaining themselves in power by a terrorism on an unprecedented scale, and bythe denial of the most elementary rights of citizenship and freedom...
...He's correct on both counts...
...Not of victory in the Cold War couldn't find a half-serious, not sarcastic, not ironic— nope, conventional publisher and was instead he was deadly serious...
...After the German defeat at Stalingrad, Churchill failed to convince Roosevelt that the Nazis were beaten and the looming menace was now Soviet power...
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